I worked with Joe Satriani through most of the JS process. Steve turned me on to Joe right before Surfing with the Alien came out. Joe was and is a regular, down-to-earth guy. He also wanted his guitars to be absolutely dead, acoustically. This went against everything I knew about building guitars. We had some moments trying to get guitars Joe liked. It was interesting to see Joe go from “Steve Vai’s guitar teacher,” to a major star. Check out his Wang Chung ‘do in the attached old ad with a Power first series guitar!
Rich Lasner